Death of A Loved One

The First Fathers’ Day Without Dad

When you lose a person in the generation before you, you begin to think about what they meant to you. When you lose a parent, you think about all they meant, and you hoped you either lived up to the best of yourself, or in some cases where the parenting was not as instructive or kind, you hope you’ve raised yourself beyond difficult circumstances.

Jean – What grief feels like physically

Jean discusses the physical effects she has experienced in grief

Katie “Ongoing Grief”

Katie talks about the loss of her mother.

Betsy – Adoption and grief

Betsy tell her story of losing her adopted son to cancer

Doug – “Two sides of the story”

Doug talks about perspective and forgiveness. Doug continues to grieve the death of his daughter in a car accident.

Holly – Every grief is unique

Holly talks about how grief can make you feel like you have lost your soul but that there is something to learn

Hope – Going back to school

Hope talks about the shift she felt when she went back to school after her father’s death.

Antoinetta – Story

Antoinetta tells her story of grief and her father getting lung cancer

Doug M – “Planning for Death”

Doug talks about how planning for a funeral and life after his wife’s death was helpful. Doug continues to grieve the death of his first wife.

Kate – Triggers

Kate discusses how she deals with her emotions when something triggers her grief

Adrianna – Finding out my brother had died by suicide

Adrianna relates how she heard about her brother’s suicide

Jessica M – My Story

Jessica talks about losing her grandfather at 14 when her mother was terminal, her mother and aunt died when she was 15. She felt alone until she found a peer support group